The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-09-03
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

rOnet1N 0OoSIFs
The Celtic language is spoken by |
100000 people in Ireland, 64,000 Of
9hom can speak no other.
The favorite pin and brooch Of the
earisian woman is ornamented with
ne or several dogs heads.
Since the accident in the Theater
Ionique. the provincial theaters in
France have had only empty galleries.
A club has been started in Berlin
which has among its rules one which
provides that no one shall be eligible
10 membership unless he can converse
auently in at least one foreign lam
guage. aT
Tho title Of baron was formerly
the only one in the English language;
now it is the lowest. Its original
name was "vavasour," but the Saxons
changed it to "thane," and finally the
Normans gave it its present sppella-
ton.
The cost of the British medical
army staff is E240, 900 year, but, in
addition, there is an item Of f2O0, 900
q year for pensions to retired doctors
and surgeons. The medical officers
retire from the service at forty.five
years Of age and receive pensions for
the remainder Of their days.
The government Of Italy is about
to undertake excavations on the site
Of the ancient city Sybaris. so famous
tor its luxury and splendor. Sybaris
was buried under the mud brought
down by an humiliation nearly twenty.
four hundred years ago, but 1t is be.
lieyed that the ruins will be found
we'll preserved. -M y Ledger.
The British tel egraph service.
which is part Of the post-office, does
not pay expenses since the rate was
reduced to sixpence per message, or
about IL cents. The deficit for the
past year was f223,000 ON working
expenses and 4326, 900 for interest on
the working capital-in all f550.0OO,
or 80. $50. OO0
The. grosshoppcr plague is giving
serious trouble in Algeria this year.
The efforts made to destroy the eggs
have proved useless. In one district
$1,000 gallons have been collected and
burned. This represents the destruc-
lion of Z, $50, 900. 600 insects. Mature.
We'll may the people of France
stand aghast at the financial problem
they are called upon to solve. On the
1st of January, $780, the public debt OF
France amounted to SO. 200, 900, 900, on
the LIST of February, 1887. it reached
S7,t24, OO00 Thus in seven years
the debt has swelled to the tune OF
81, 1924, 100000 - an increase Of such
fearful proportions as to justly create
alarm for the solvency of France
Public Opinion.
A "jubilee" river is the latest dis
covery in New Guinea. where an Aus
tralian expedition in the Victory has
been making some valuable explora'
tions. The Victory found two large
streams-the Douglas" reached by
the so-called "Aird river" which is
only one Of the mouths of the vast
Douglas. and still wider further east,
which the expedition duly christcned
, .Jubilee," in honor Of the Queen.
Both rivers were explored for fully one
hundred miles, and five new tribes
we're found. -Sprinqfeld Times.
The total number of persons killed
| BY wild animals and venomous snakes
| In the ten divisions Of Bengal during
| the official year 1885 was the high
est in the last five years, and amount
cd to II, 1928. As is usual, nine-tenths
of these deaths were caused by snakes.
But of 1929 buffaloes. oxen. horses
| and ponies destroyed in this manner,
only 9l1 were killed by snakes. These
annual returns do not take account Of
sheep. goats, pigs and monkeys. the
destruction Of which is very large. The
hyena is credited with the destruction
Of 77S head of cattle. Boston Budget